Margaret Cummins^{[1, 2]}

1846 - 1911  (65 years)

• Name	Margaret Cummins
  Born	5 Jan 1846	Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1870	Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States   [3]
  Residence	1880	Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States   [4]
  Residence	1900	Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States   [4]
  Residence	1910	Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States   [5]
  Died	Bet. 10 Sep 1911 and 24 Nov 1911	Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States
  Person ID	I2733051544	Master Tree | Descendants of James Morris and Margaret Cooke
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2010

  
  

  Father	Dr. William Cummins,   b. 21 Jun 1814,   d. 22 Apr 1883  (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Ellen Theresa Lowber,   b. 14 Feb 1815, Delaware, United States ,   d. 1 Apr 1892  (Age 77 years)
  Married	07 Nov 1842
  Family ID	F8026639211	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John C Bailey,   b. Abt. 1836, Delaware, United States ,   d. 12 May 1895, Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Married	6 Sep 1865
  Children	1. Daniel Bailey,   b. Aug 1866, Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States   2. Frank O Bailey,   b. 13 Jun 1868, Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States ,   d. 1942, Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States  (Age 73 years)
  Last Modified	4 May 2009
  Family ID	F5259877748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	R Hopper Smith,   b. Abt. 1839
  Married	8 Sep 1911	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2010
  Family ID	F16053351927	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 5 Jan 1846 - Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States Residence - 1870 - Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States Residence - 1880 - Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States Residence - 1900 - Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States Residence - 1910 - Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States Married - 8 Sep 1911 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Died - Bet. 10 Sep 1911 and 24 Nov 1911 - Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S8072384374] The New York Times, The New York Times, (The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com), 25 Nov 1911. SOLD DEAD WIFE'S EFFECTS R H Smith Holds Public Auction at Hotel in Smyrna, Del. Special to the New York Times WILMINGTON, Del. Sept. 24. -- The personal effects of his second wife, now dead, were sold publicly by R. Hopper Smith, widower, aged 72, formerly Sheriff of Queen Anne County, Md., in front of a hotel in Smyrna, Del., yesterday. Smith recently married Margaret C. Bailey, a wealthy widow, aged 68, whose two sons, Frank and Daniel, attempted to have her declared insane. Frank Baily lives at 938 Hudson Street, Hoboken, N. J. The aged widower, who now occupies the Bailey home in Smyrna, sold among other things a box labeled "gray shroud." It had contained the garment in which his second wife was buried. The sale attracted a crowd. Among the household goods the framed portraits of the dead wife were conspicuous. A woman friend of the wife became so indignant that she appropriated one of the pictures and sent it to the family. A certificate of marriage of Smith's second wife to her first husband, Francis Bradbury of Elkton, Md., was put up and sold, as were also family Bibles, one containing a complete family record. A Prayer Book given to Mrs. Bailey by her uncle, the late Rev. John A. Roche, and so inscribed, went to the highest bidder. The shroud box was offered with a pair of blankets. When a handsome book was returned to a relative of the dead wife it was opened at a paragraph which read: "Honest loss is preferable to shameful gain." This was written by the donor, the Rev. Mr. Roche, to his niece. [S8072384374] The New York Times, The New York Times, (The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com), 9 Sep 1911. MOTHER WEDS; BALKS SONS. They Vainly Attempted to Have Aged Woman Declared Insane Special to The New York Times WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 9 -- The town of Smyrna, Del., is agitated over an effort made by two sons of a wealthy woman to have her declared insane in order to prevent her getting married. The attempt, which was learned today, was futile, the couple slipping away to Philadelphia and there being wedded. The bride is Mrs. Margaret C. Bailey, aged 68, whose first husband left over $60,000, and R. Hopper Smith, aged 72, who is also rich. It is the latter's third matrimonial venture. The woman's sons are Frank Bailey of Hoboken, N. J., and Daniel C Bailey of Smyrna. They opposed the match vigorously and had a Delaware lawyer engage Dr. Davies of the Delaware Sate Hospital Insane Asylum to examine their mother, but the doctor was not convinced of her insanity. [S560402622] 1870 United States Census. [S8029507917] 1880 United States Census. [S560402623] 1910 United States Census.